Between 1914 and 1989, Canada was on a long way towards being a just society and achieving gender equality. Canadians never stopped to pursue the equality of women during their struggle towards the world wars and political change. Canada had achieved equality for women by the end of 1989; which approved by their changing roles in politics and jobs. They gradually earned equal pay and more women participated in the House of Commons. They were protected by various acts and laws and Immigrated women were also gaining respect from the government. .
The major change that contributed to their equality had emerged from 1916 due to their voting rights. Women first won the right to vote in provincial elections in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. On the other hand, the Military Voters Act also extended to allow wives or widows to vote (Coomber 6). A good beginning started at that point was leading Canada to a just society. It gave us a clearer viewpoint of the next contributions that proved women achieved equality in the way they are in politics. Even though women got to sit in the House of Commons, the portion of it was still low. They never held more than 5% of the seats in the House of Commons until 1984-- the rate had been dramatically increased by 10% (Burt 145). A good beginning started at that point was leading Canada to a just society. It gave us a clearer viewpoint of the next contributions that proved women achieved equality in the way they are in politics. Comparing to the situation in different decades, we could obviously notice that the roles of women in the House of Commons are improved. After 1918, the political parties generally ignored the 'women s vote'. It was not discussed until 1984 that a national debate was held in the federal election campaign caused by women's issue (Burt 145). Within 70 years, women's role in politics had achieved a big jump. They gained more respect at this point from the attitude of government towards women.